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David Starkey is Professor of English, Director of the Creative Writing Program, and former Director of the Composition Program at Santa Barbara City College. A frequent collaborator with the late Wendy Bishop, Starkey helped develop a pedagogy focused on the cross-pollination of composition and creative writing. In addition to his work with Bishop, which includes the co-authored Keywords in Creative Writing (2006), he is the editor of two collections of essays on pedagogy, Teaching Writing Creatively (1998) and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), and a special issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Dec. 2014). Starkey is a poet ( Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song, 2021; What Just Happened, 2021), a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction (published in American Literary Review, in Cimarron Review, in Living Blue in the Red States, and elsewhere), and a playwright whose plays have been produced across the U.S. Starkey is also a committed practitioner, and his writing on corequisite composition is informed by his participation in SBCC’s Express to Success program, an early-adopter of the ALP/corequisite model. His conference presentations in recent years have emphasized his pedagogy and passion for working with a broad range of student writers. He is currently editing a collection of essays on teaching corequisite composition.

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How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief , David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.

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David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, Co-editor of The California Review of Books, and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty-five years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses—most recently Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song and What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency—and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. His textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin’s), is in its fourth edition. He is also the author of two composition textbooks: Hello, Writer: An Academic Writing Guide (Bedford/St. Martin's) and Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students (Broadview). A frequent collaborator with the late Wendy Bishop, Starkey helped develop a pedagogy focused on the cross-pollination of composition and creative writing. In addition to his work with Bishop, which includes the co-authored Keywords in Creative Writing (2006), he is the editor of two collections of essays on pedagogy, Teaching Writing Creatively (1998) and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), and a special issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Dec. 2014). Starkey is also a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction (published in American Literary Review, in Cimarron Review, in Living Blue in the Red States,and elsewhere), and a playwright whose plays have been produced across the U.S. (davidstarkey.net)

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How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief , David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.

Preface: A Few Words to Instructors

A Few Things You Should Know About Creative Writing

*A Few Words About Revision

1 Writing Poetry

A Few Things You Should Know about Poetry

The Elements of Poetry

The Short Poem: Three Models

     Gail White, "My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom"

     Ruth Stone, "Winter"

     * Rae Armantrout, "Duration"

Lines and Stanzas

Meter and Rhythm

The Music of Poetry

Images, Symbols and Figurative Language

Diction, Syntax and the Language of Poetry

Poetic Forms

     Sonnet / Villanelle / Rondeau / Sestina/ Cinquain / /Pantoum / Ghazal

     Prose Poetry

Getting Started Writing Poetry

>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Poems

An Anthology of Short Poems

     * Sherman Alexie, "Basketball"

     * Agha Shahid Ali, "Postcard from Kashmir"

     Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races"

     * Marilyn Chin, "Repulse Bay"

     Wanda Coleman, "Brute Strength"

     Billy Collins, "Nostalgia"

     Elaine Equi, "A Quiet Poem"

     Joy Harjo, "Santa Fe"

     * Geoffrey Hill, "September Song"

     * Brenda Hillman, "Shadows in Snow"

     Allison Joseph, "On Being Told I Don’t Speak like a Black Person"

     * Jane Kenyon, "The Blue Bowl"

     Galway Kinnell, "That Silent Evening

     * Ben Lerner, "We Have Assembled"

     * D. Nurske. "Left Field"

     * Naomi Shihab Nye, "I Feel Sorry for Jesus"

     * Mary Oliver, "Crossing the Swamp"

     * David O’Meara, "The Game"

     * Deborah Paredez, "Bustillo Drive Grocery"

     * Linda Pastan, "November"

     * Bradley Paul, "Short Ends"

     * Molly Peacock, "Instead of Her Own"

     * Patricia Smith, "Listening at the Door"

     Gary Snyder, "I Went into the Maverick Bar"

     Gary Soto, "What Is Your Major?

     James Tate, "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems"

     * Natasha Trethewey, "Southern History"

     * Gloria Vando, "new shoes and an old flame"

     *Alma Luz Villaneuva, "bitch bitch bitch bitch"

     David Wojahn, "The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987"

     * Matthew Zapruder, "Automated Regret Machine"

2 Writing the Short-Short Story

A Few Things You Should Know about the Short-Short Story

The Elements of Fiction

The Short-Short Story: Three Models

     Isaac Babel, "Crossing the River Zbrucz"

     Donald Barthelme, "The Baby"

     Roberta Allen, "Marzipan"

Structure and Design

Creating Characters

Writing Dialogue

Setting the Scene

Deciding on Point of View, Developing Tone and Style

     First-Person Point of View / Second-Person Point of View / Third-Person Limited Point of View / Third-Person Omniscient Point of View / Tense / Tone and Style

Getting Started Writing the Short-Short Story

>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Story 136

An Anthology of Short-Short Stories

     * Margaret Atwood, "An Angel"

     * Aimee Bender, "Loser"

     T.Coraghessan Boyle, "The Hit Man"

     Ron Carlson, "A Kind of Flying"

     Raymond Carver, "Popular Mechanics"

     John Cheever, "Reunion"

     * Guadalupe Valdes Fallis, "Recuerdo"

     * Ursula Hegi, "Doves"

     * Pam Houston, "Symphony"

     Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"

     Joyce Carol Oates, "Wolf’s Head Lake"

3 Writing Creative Nonfiction

A Few Things You Should Know about Short Creative Nonfiction

The Elements of Creative Nonfiction

Short Creative Nonfiction: Three Models

     Rebecca McClanahan, "Liferower"

     Brian Doyle, "Joyas Voladoras"

     * David Sedaris, "Jesus Shaves"

Organizing Creative Nonfiction

Telling the Truth

Creative Nonfiction as Narrative

     Character / Dialogue / Scene-Setting

The Poetry of Creative Nonfiction

     Imagery and Figurative Language / Diction / Sound and Rhythm

Writing Yourself into Creative Nonfiction

Ethics and Edicts

Getting Started Writing Short Creative Nonfiction

>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Creative Nonfiction

An Anthology of Short Creative Nonfiction

     Diane Ackerman, "The Mute Sense"

     * James Brown, "My Papa’s Waltz"

     Edwidge Danticat, "Westbury Court"

     * Joan Didion, "In Bed"

     * Pico Iyer, "In the Dark"

     Dinty W. Moore, "El Toro Rojo"

     Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "The Witching Hour"

     Reg Saner, "Late July, 4:40 A.M."

     * Ryan Van Meter, "First"

     * Alice Walker, "Dreads"

4 Writing the Ten-Minute Play

A Few Things You Should Know about the Ten-Minute Play

The Elements of Playwriting

The Ten-Minute Play: Three Models

     David Ives, "Sure Thing"

     David Henry Hwang, "Trying to Find Chinatown"

     Tina Howe, "The Divine Fallacy"

Structuring the Ten-Minute Play

Creating Believable Characters

Writing Convincing Dialogue

Crafting a Theme

On Stage: The Elements of Production

     Stage / Sets / Props, Costumes, and Effects / Lights / Sounds / Actors / Audience

Getting Started Writing the Ten-Minute Play

>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Play

Playscript Format: A Model

An Anthology of Ten-Minute Plays

     Dan Dietz, "Trash Anthem"

     Kristina Halvorson, "Now We’re Really Getting Somewhere"

     * Adam Kraar, "Love on the B-Line"

     * K. Alexa Mavromatis, "Bone China"

* A Few Words About Getting Your Work Published and Produced

A Few Words of Farewell

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